Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396)

What the Numbers Say About Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396)

Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396) is a small school district in Arizona, serving 1,610 students at an estimated per-pupil spending of $22,278. Estimated average teacher salary — derived from instructional expenditure variable Z33 divided by teacher FTE — is $82,640, placing the district in the high-investment tier of NCES F-33 respondents. NCES LEAID 0404060 references the FY2022 Common Core of Data Local Education Agency Finance Survey.

Relative to the Arizona statewide average of $57,442, teacher pay in Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396) runs meaningfully above the state benchmark — a 43.9% gap, and near the national instructional-salary estimate of $82,292 (0.4% differential). Among enrolling districts in Arizona, it pays more than 93% of them. Licensing reciprocity, collective bargaining strength, and state aid formulas all contribute to where a district lands in these tiers.

On the budget side, Kayenta Unified School District #27 (4396) reports $35.9M in total expenditure against $32.8M in revenue, with instructional salaries accounting for 25% of spending — a compensation-to-budget ratio that signals how much of each tax dollar reaches classroom educators. Regular-program teacher salary outlay is $6.8M, special-education teacher pay is $0.9M. These figures are district-level aggregates from F-33, not individual contracts — step-and-column schedules, stipends, and collectively-bargained differentials sit underneath these totals.